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The Penn State women’s volleyball (14-3, 6-0 Big Ten), ranked #10 in this week’s AVCA Poll, and sporting a 12-match winning streak (the third-longest current streak in the country, behind San Diego — 14 straight — and Miami Ohio — 13 straight) goes on the road this weekend to take on No. 22 Purdue (11-6, 1-5 Big Ten) on Friday at 8 p.m., followed by Indiana (12-7, 1-5 Big Ten) on Saturday evening.
The Nittany Lions have alot to feel good about, not least of which is their five-set win over then-#1 Minnesota last week. 6-1 Jr. OH Simone Lee posted 30 kills in that match, earning both the Big Ten Player of the Week award and espnW’s National Player of the Week award. Her teammate 6-0 Jr. setter Abby Detering was named Big Ten Setter of the Week after recording a career-best 61 assists and 10 digs against the Gophers. Although Lee and Detering walked off with the awards, it was a team effort all the way, as 6-2 Jr. RS/Opp Heidi Thelen and 6-3 Jr. MH Haleigh Washington (whose .459 hitting % ranks 3rd in the NCAA) each registered 14 kills against Minnesota, with Thelen leading the team with 5 blocks. And as a team, have limited their opponents to .109 hitting % — tops in NCAA D1.
We could go on, but one elephant remains in the room: trips to the Indianas (aka Purdue and Indiana) haven’t always gone so well for the Nittany Lions. Think back to the infamous “Lost Weekend” of 2010, when after dropping a 3-2 decision to Purdue on Friday night (25-21, 25-18, 16-25, 18-25, 11-15) — the first time Purdue had defeated Penn State since 1987 — the Nittany Lions went on to lose their Saturday night match with Indiana, 3-1 (19-25, 25-27, 25-18, 24-26). That was another streak-breaker, as the Hoosiers, after 40 consecutive losses to Penn State, won for the first ever in a series that started in 1982.
The Nittany Lions have alot to feel good about, not least of which is their five-set win over then-#1 Minnesota last week. 6-1 Jr. OH Simone Lee posted 30 kills in that match, earning both the Big Ten Player of the Week award and espnW’s National Player of the Week award. Her teammate 6-0 Jr. setter Abby Detering was named Big Ten Setter of the Week after recording a career-best 61 assists and 10 digs against the Gophers. Although Lee and Detering walked off with the awards, it was a team effort all the way, as 6-2 Jr. RS/Opp Heidi Thelen and 6-3 Jr. MH Haleigh Washington (whose .459 hitting % ranks 3rd in the NCAA) each registered 14 kills against Minnesota, with Thelen leading the team with 5 blocks. And as a team, have limited their opponents to .109 hitting % — tops in NCAA D1.
We could go on, but one elephant remains in the room: trips to the Indianas (aka Purdue and Indiana) haven’t always gone so well for the Nittany Lions. Think back to the infamous “Lost Weekend” of 2010, when after dropping a 3-2 decision to Purdue on Friday night (25-21, 25-18, 16-25, 18-25, 11-15) — the first time Purdue had defeated Penn State since 1987 — the Nittany Lions went on to lose their Saturday night match with Indiana, 3-1 (19-25, 25-27, 25-18, 24-26). That was another streak-breaker, as the Hoosiers, after 40 consecutive losses to Penn State, won for the first ever in a series that started in 1982.
